Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-09-10
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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New Orleans has brass band OF fourtee
members who are all newsboys.
The electric lights now being used in tn
Scotch fisheries with great success.
A pack of bloodhounds has been added t
the police force of Sherman, Texas.
Pittsburg is building an experimental gar
bage furnace at an expense Of $4,000.
The law against carrying concealed wea
pons at EI Paso is being rigidly enforced.
Fra'cuelo. the bull fighter, is to have $50,
900 for four performances in the City of Mex
leo.
The head Of the Sultan's harem is now ;
/ Christian woman, beautiful, cultivated anc
Spaniard.
The fashionable Swiss hotels now have
American bars, presided over by handsome
Swiss girls in native dress.
DR.. Carver, in shooting exhibition, at
Dubuque yesterday, broke 1000 glass balls
in 43 minutes and 231a seconds.
While big gun was being cast at Shelf
field, England, the gun exploded and killed
FIVE men outright and three others have since
died.
Mayor Hewitt threatens legal proceedings
against the elevated roads in New York,
they having built stations over cross-sreets
without municipal permission.
Serious trouble is expected in Chicago If
the decision of the Suprume Court is against
the Anarchists, and preparations have been
made accordingly by the authorities.
A meeting of Missourians, who went to
California in IS4o 50 and returned after
ward, is to be held at Beonvlle, September
18th, to arrange for grand reunion.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer of
Dakota, has harvested his $4,000 acres of
wheat and the thrashing is now in progress.
He says the yield will average fifteen bushels
to the acre.
A rep utsble Georgia journal says that a
clock down there stopped the moment its
owner was arrested, charged with murder,
and started again without aid the moment he
was acquitted.
A man named Carter is said to have found
a cross of two varieties of wheat which will
make British wheat so mnch more productive
that it will give the Britshers the supremacy
in the business.
Armour & Co. OF Chicago will build the
largest grain elevator in the world, locating
t on Goose Island. close to the Milwaukee
md St. Paul Railway tracks. It's capacity
S to be 2,ooo, 900 bushels.
Cattlemen near Albuquerque, N. NJ, will |.
organize vigilance committee to "rem Owe"
'ome of the cattle thieves who have been
operating with especial boldness on the |
Mangans and San Dia ranges.
A tornado passed about four miles west of
Toledo, Ohio, Tuesday, during considerable
damage to fences, trees and buildings. At 4.
we're blown down and the roof crushed.
In French country houses the fashionable .
sport is frog spearing. The weapon used re.
sembles a cross bow, and the barbed arrows
are attached to the bows by silken string, !
so as to haul the frog in when he is pierced |
The Milwaukee Socialists are raising !
81, 900 to get Paul Grottkau out of Jail, and |
are likely to make him their delegate to the
National Convention of Socialists which
meets at Buffalo September 18th and 18th. |
General orders have been issued by the
War Department proclaiming, by authority |
Of the President, tract of land within the |
limits of the Uintah Indian Reservation a
MILITARY reservation for abe post of Duches. !
ne.
Senator Sawyer of the New Hampshire |
Legislature Tuesday openly stated that
Kirk D. Price had, on Wednesday last, Of
Tered him bride Of $1,000 to make speech
in favor of the pending Boston and Maine
NallGOau Dill.
Trouble is feared among the Blackfeet In
dams in the Northwest Territory, The PEG.
pie Of Calgary are much alarmed, for the
Blackfeet are the most powerful tribe in the
Northwest, and would be terrible foes if they
went on the warpath.
Judge Andrews of Augusta, Main, has
placed Jamaica ginger in the same category
with Intoxicating liquors, and a medicine
bitters has been seized from its dealer, as
several men went on spree with it. 1t is
said to be half alcohol.
Benjamin F. Butler is the latest public
man TO send an offering to the East Aurora,
n. Y. FAIR. He has forwarded dozen sill.
yer spoons to the committe, to be presented
to the young woman who enters the bonds
OF matrmony on the opening day of the Fair.
Some time ago in Syracuse, Kan, when
the nomination of candidates for council was
under consideration. it was suggested, as
Joke, that ticket composed entirely of
ha